Shropshire Council was criticised in October for not providing enough homes in its draft Local Plan, which outlines all ...

My colleagues on the Homes & Property desk had described the latest trend in the London housing market: ex-council homes ... your own duchy in some parts of Britain — Londoners with ample ...

NEWS BRIEF: Commercially funded UK pubcaster Channel 4 has commissioned an observational documentary focusing on Britain’s social housing crisis from 24 Hours in A&E producer The Garden. Council House ...

almost all social housing was council housing, and throughout that decade it accounted for around a third of the overall housing stock of Great Britain. Since then, the make-up of social housing ...

She is keen to get Britain building more affordable council homes. (PA) Angela Rayner, deputy prime minister and housing secretary, has said that she wants to see “the biggest wave of council ...

TENANTS across Britain announced plans yesterday to join forces to ramp up the campaign for sweeping changes to end the country’s housing crisis. Campaign group Defend Council Housing (DCH) is set to ...

Extensive bombing during World War Two destroyed around 475,000 houses in Britain. This led to the building of further council housing and also the creation of ‘new towns’, planned and built ...

But new research commissioned by the Labour-led Southwark council has found that ... to Buy scheme in a bid to preserve Britain’s existing stock of social housing. But ministers have been ...

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) - the independent body which oversees council housing - said it uncovered almost 1,000 live cases of repairs, which had proven a "significant driver of ...